Compel Quotes

132 quotes by 113 authors

In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has… — Pope John Paul II
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see… — Alexander Hamilton
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely… — Jimmy Webb
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career. — Billie Burke
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party,… — Wilfrid Laurier
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own… — Thomas Carlyle
Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things… — Boyd K. Packer
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak… — Laozi
AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In… — Saint Augustine
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power..... — Plato
... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of… — Barack Obama
Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of… — Winston Churchill
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians… — George Bernard Shaw
In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make… — Twyla Tharp
The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they… — Felix Frankfurter
For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we… — William Tyndale
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense… — Francesca Lia Block
A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and… — L. Frank Baum
War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will. — Carl von Clausewitz

Who Wrote These Compel Quotes

113 authors contributed a total of 132 Compel Quotes, led by these top contributors: